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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Egyptian Arabic"”.
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Subatomic Semantics and the Active Participle in Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic sentences with active participle predicates license past, present, and future adverbials even though these sentences encode only the present tense. In this dissertation, I argue that the logical forms of sentences with active participle predicates involve existential quantification …
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A contrastive cross-cultural study of the speech act of correction in Egyptian Arabic and American English
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Shaping tradition in Arabic song: The career and repertory of Umm Kulthum
… viewed as a model of modern, yet authentically Egyptian Arabic musical expression. Rather than emphasize the talent of an exceptional individual, attention is focused upon Umm Kulthum's repertory, which is treated as the widely shared cultural property it became through her extensive use of mass …
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Identity Effects and Opacity in Syrian Arabic: An Optimality Theory Analysis
… ranking. Epenthesis and syncope in Iraqi and Egyptian Arabic are accounted for by permuting the constraint set that is present in the grammar of Syrian Arabic. A discussion of emphatic rounding in Lebanese Arabic is then pursued, comparing this dialect to SA utilizing the mechanism of …
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Media discourse of Egyptian and British newspapers' websites and its influence on the formation of images of Muslims and Islam post 25th January 2011 revolution.
… newspaper websites in the UK and Egypt, post the Egyptian Revolution 25th of January 2011 [1/25 hereinafter]. This research comparatively analysed two corpora from the British newspapers’ websites, namely The Guardian and The Times, and two from the Egyptian Arabic-Language newspapers’ websites, …
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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
… between linguistic varieties. I compare five Arabic varieties – Modern Standard Arabic MSA, Gulf Arabic GA, Levantine Arabic LA, Egyptian Arabic EA, and Moroccan Arabic MA – considering both lexical and pronunciation variation. I introduce the idea of measuring the amount of linguistic …